Susan E. Lederer Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood Rose George Metropolitan Books, 2018. 368 pp. The reviewer is at the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI 53706, USA. Email: susan.lederer{at}wisc.edu

Even after being severely damaged by blast fishing and coral mining, coral reefs can be rehabilitated over large scales using a relatively inexpensive technique, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, in partnership with Mars Symbioscience. For the study, published this week in the journal Restoration […]

Locals reported to a Sumatran conservation agency that a female tiger was seen caught inside a pig trap placed by a hunter in Muara Lembu village in Riau province, Indonesia. Credit: Wahyudi/AFP/Getty For endangered species, the death of just one animal threatens the group’s future. The loss is especially […]

Artist’s concept of a dust storm on Titan. Image via ESA. Only two worlds in our solar system, Earth and Mars, were known to have dust storms. Now a third world – the largest moon of the giant planet Saturn – has been found to have dust storms, too. The […]

Scientists around the world have been trying to replace damaged heart tissue using lab-made heart-muscle cells (cardiomyocytes), either injecting them into the heart or applying patches laced with the cells. But results to date have been underwhelming. “If you make cardiomyocytes in a dish from pluripotent stem cells, they will […]

The world’s largest bird — a newly identified species of elephant bird — weighed as much as a dinosaur when it strutted around Madagascar more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds. This monster bird is now extinct, but it weighed as much as 1,760 lbs. (800 […]

Robert Neubecker By Kate FurnellSep. 27, 2018 , 2:00 PM My hands were shaking. My stomach began to churn as I looked out at the faces before me. I fought to calm myself. Facing a packed conference room of more than 150 people—including my doctoral supervisor, my collaborators, and world-leading […]

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Policy ForumCancer Research Mingyang Song1,2, Bert Vogelstein3, Edward L. Giovannucci1,4, Walter C. Willett1,4, Cristian Tomasetti5,6 1Departments of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. 2Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit and Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. […]

To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ a bacteriophage — a genetically engineered virus — in a test used in hard-to-reach areas around the world. Rather than sending water samples to laboratories and waiting days for results, this new […]